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Your first child, Max, was born in June 2023. Tell me what were those first few weeks like for you and for Ruth, your wife?

I think about...

What do I think about?

If I cast my mind back to that time, I just...

It's hard to kind of get to it now in a funny kind of way,

because it all seems so easy in retrospect.

And I'm sure it didn't feel that way at the time.

But we took everything for granted how straightforward it was.

Not straightforward at all being a new parent, but everything just kind of, you just muddled

through, you just figure it out.

Archie Bland is a journalist at the Guardian.

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